Carmax is the only professional car dealer that I know in existance - Salesperson CarMax Employee Review

4.0
Oct 16, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Carmax is a corporation and run like one. You get day off and vacation days. You don't have to fight for your pay like other dealers it's cut and dry you sell a car and you get paid x amount. There lots of training. Carmax has an excellent support system and really does try to make the customer happy if at all possible.

Cons

Too much training sometimes. In the name of training there is a very oppressive culture of people "managers" looking for what you're doing wrong rather than what you're doing right. Some of the cut and dry policies go against making customers happy. ie sometimes a car needs a tire or something cheap to make the customer happy and carmax won't do it because it "meets the carmax standards." Carmax would rather take the car back under the 5 day return policy than replace the tire.

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5.0
Apr 16, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

a people driven company that sells cars

Cons

Inner network devloper compabalility is lacking

4.0
Jun 13, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The perks of working at CarMax are quite extensive. Associates are offered an aggressive 401k program, Stock Purchasing Plan, in store discounts on sales and service, access to the CarMax Wholesale system, excellent healthcare, plenty of PTO, and at my location we are given as much OT as we want. My coworkers are generally good people, that I enjoy being able to work along side day in and day out. Management is very understanding in regards to calling out sick family emergencies, and schedule requests.

Cons

Despite doing the work of 5 people, and very politely asking for a raise management will not give me more than my 3% annual raise which is the single biggest let down. The bonus change of 2025 being labeled as "exciting" was straight corporate gaslighting unlike anything I've ever seen. Since the start of 2026, as of this review being written we have lost 7 associates largely due to pay, and I am soon to join those associates. Management from the store level up to corporate needs to understand that to retain their top performers they need to be compensated like a top performer. Some members of management are cliquey and moody which is very frustrating to deal with. Quality of Management varies wildly from store to store as well

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